Leaving for School Checklist

1.✔Say "good-bye" to everyone I know - at least 3 times.

2. ✔Hide all of my stuff from Bob so that he will not throw it away while I am gone.
Sort-of check.

3. ✔Endure the look of horror from the man at the Mail Boxes counter when he hears that I am going back to school. I choose to believe that he was appalled by the numbers of boxes I was mailing and not that he thought we should be building a coffin with those boxes.

4. ✔✔Burn chicken so that I can freeze portions of chicken noodle soup for Bob to eat while I am away. I can just see him sitting, eating soup and missing me --until he breaks a tooth on charred chicken.

5. ✔Realize that I have teacher clothes and I have more teacher clothes, but I have no clothes that look like a way cool and very learned graduate student.

6. ✔Tell everyone I know that Kyle and Marty at 777-JUNK are my new best friends.

7. ✔Finally....get a hair cut!

8. ✔Make sure Bob has 9 pillows on the bed just like the hotel in OshKosh, Wisconsin. Maybe he will think I am still there and not notice those tuition bills.

9. ✔Hide Bob's iPod docking station in my luggage. He will never notice that it is gone.

10. ✔Actually mail the notes that I have written to our generous friends.
Tomorrow.